>From: Bonnie Scott <bonnie@staff.prodigy.com>
>Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:16:16 -0500 (EST)
[discussion of DejaNews presenting Usenet that had propogated with one method,
but is searched with another]
>When you submit your newsgroup posting or email message to a list, you, the
>author, are publishing the work via a pre-defined distribution mechanism. All
>propagations via that distribution stream are part of the initial "run" of
>copies of the message, which were triggered by the copyright owner. No one
>else has the right to make re-prints, in any form.
I'm not following your argument. Obviously, DejaNews receives its Usenet feed
in the usual manner. They provide a search engine. I would point out that this
is not unusual: I can search for articles available to me on my NNTP host.
The poster of a Usenet article is aware that his article will be propogated,
but he does not have control over the method, nor the time it takes. Can the
author of News posted via uucp complain about more recently developed methods?
The only thing different about DejaNews is that the articles have unusually
long expiration times. I doubt that this is something the poster of a Usenet
article can complain about. He is aware that article expiration times are under
the control of news administrators. He can only suggest when his articles
should be expired through the use of the appropriate headers.
But, even articles on DejaNews expire. Recently, nothing before 1995 has been
available. They promise that 1994 will be available again, though.
I suppose an argument can be made that DejaNews has no permission to add HTML
to the articles.
Nevertheless, how could an author claim to be economically damaged?
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